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PRODUCTION

A Year in the Vineyard

Every bottle of wine is the record of a single trip around the calendar. Follow the grapevine from its first spring bud to its winter rest, and the wine in your glass begins to make sense.

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Regional Reports

Explore the important wine regions from around the globe.

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GRAPES

The Grapes of the Future Are Already Here

From Marselan in the vineyards of China to Vidal frozen on the vine in Canada, a new generation of crossings and hybrids is quietly reshaping what wine can be. The science is old, the urgency is new, and the names will take some getting used to.

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REGIONS

The Long Memory of Roussillon

Tucked between the Pyrenees and the Mediterranean, a wine region with one foot in Spain has quietly preserved what other places forgot. Its old vines and Catalan soul make it one of the most compelling unfinished stories in the wine world.

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